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Surah Al-Ma’arij, Verse 9

سورة المعارج، الآية ٩

70:9 Juz 29 Hizb 57 Page 568 of the mushaf Meccan surah

Text of verse 70:9

وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ۝٩

Transliteration

watakūnu l-jibālu kal-ʿih'ni

Translation

And the mountains will be like wool,¹⁷⁵⁰

Notes

[1750] i.e., in the process of disintegration.

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Verse 9 of Surah Al-Ma’arij (70:9), a Meccan surah, is in juz 29, on page 568 of the mushaf. Read it in Arabic with its transliteration, translations and tafsir, and listen to it recited by 74 reciters.

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Tafsir of verse 9

Al-Mukhtasar

And the mountains will be light, like cotton.

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Other translations of verse 9

and the mountains will be like dyed wool⁵,

Notes

[5] While disintegrating.

And the mountains will be like flakes of wool.

And the hills become as flakes of wool,

And the mountains will be like wool,

And the mountains shall be as tufts of wool

And the mountains will be as wool-tufts,

Verse 9 word by word

وَتَكُونُ watakūnu And will be ك و ن
ٱلْجِبَالُ l-jibālu the mountains ج ب ل
كَٱلْعِهْنِ kal-ʿih'ni like wool ع ه ن

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Cited by Ibn Kathir in his explanation of this verse

Al-Qari’ah 101:5
وَتَكُونُ ٱلْجِبَالُ كَٱلْعِهْنِ ٱلْمَنفُوشِ

And the mountains will be like wool, fluffed up.

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